Following is a summary of key information, updated daily, related to COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) and impacts in Watauga County and surrounding areas. Visit wataugademocrat.com/covid19 for additional coverage on the virus and its impacts. For editorial tips and questions, email editor@wataug… Read more
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- WCS spring break will pause remote learning, meal distribution
- Making medical supplies: Tsuga, Watauga Opportunities, Misty Mountain join cause to supply needed equipment
- WCS spring break will pause remote learning, meal distribution
- Social distancing urged as officials plan for COVID-19 peak in NC
- High Country staff serve at Samaritan's Purse field hospitals in New York, Italy
- AppHealthCare, ARHS share guidance on cloth masks, face coverings
- Local government, AppalCART budgets could be impacted by COVID-19
- N.C. COVID-19 case count up to at least 2,674 with 39 dead
- ARHS seeks donations of hand sanitizer; AppHealthCare shares more ways to help
- Watauga Board of Ed to live-stream April 6 meeting
- Chief justice suspends in-person court proceedings until June 1
As the threat of COVID-19 hospital equipment shortages worry the country, companies are taking matters into their own hands. Three Boone businesses are using their abilities to make supplies for our community and others across the state and nation.
BOONE — With Watauga County Schools’ spring break scheduled for Monday through Friday, April 13-17, remote learning and meal distribution will cease during that time, school leaders confirmed.
BOONE — As experts try to predict when COVID-19 cases will peak in North Carolina, health officials urge the public to continue practicing social distancing — and one scorecard says Watauga residents are heeding the advice.
NEW YORK — Twenty-two staff from the High Country area were among 90 personnel working at a New York City field hospital in Central Park established by Boone-based Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse as of April 2, according to spokesperson Kaitlyn Lahm.
The following information is courtesy of the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office. All suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
RALEIGH — The number of North Carolina residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 rose to 3,221 as of 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, April 7, with 354 people hospitalized with the virus, according to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. According to the Raleigh News & Observer, th…
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Hazel Tate, 105, of Blowing Rock, N.C., passed away April 1, 2020.
Raymond Egger, 77, of Roan Mountain, TN., passed away April 2, 2020.
Patricia Wilcox Cook, 80, passed away on April 2, 2020 due to …
James M. “Jim” Cameron, 69, of Flat Top Road, Blowing Rock, N.…
The United States is now officially the stupidest country in the world, with the highest rate of Coronavirus infections of any developed country in the world and with no letup in sight.
As a field organizer working for NextGen North Carolina, I’m working to register young people to vote and mobilize them to get to the the polls in November. If there’s one thing I know from my peers, it is that we are fed up with politicians who seek to concentrate their power at the expense…
Is the Corona 19 virus the result of a plot by the Chinese to bring down the United States?
It may seem oxymoronic that during a time when we are importantly socially isolated, it is more vital than ever to partake in the communal business of attending the regular meetings of our governmental bodies. But this is so.
During the past two weeks, Gov. Roy Cooper and local officials have imposed a regulatory regime of increasing severity on North Carolinians. Their stated goal is to slow the spread of COVID-19 so the number of cases requiring hospitalization won’t shoot far above the maximum capacity of hosp…
Bagpipes play as the American flag is brought down Appalachian Ski Mtn on Saturday, March 7, 2020, as part of the Wounded Warrior Project's "Heroes on the Mountain" event.
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